Educação ambiental nas escolas municipais Ladeira e Nossa Senhora da Conceição

Abstract

The present study brings a discussion about the importance of the Environment, more precisely in the initial grades of elementary school. In this sense, environmental education work was carried out in two municipal schools in the rural area of the municipality of São Bento, whose main objective was to evaluate the importance of introducing environmental education in the first years of teaching children based on activities carried out in the school and based on understanding the teachers’ conception of the topic. Therefore, as this is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, a field activity on environmental education was carried out with teachers, through the application of a questionnaire, with open and closed questions, in addition to pedagogical dynamics with children, using toys and games made from recyclable materials. As a theoretical reference, we use authors such as: Coelho et al. (2015), Silva (2020), Oliveira (2021), Augusto (2013), Grzebieluka (2014). We concluded that it is extremely necessary to present this topic at an early age, in a more integrated and everyday way, since we found that schools only present the topic on commemorative dates.